Found one of my best looking male shrimp is dead due to bad molt today ive suspected that the sand ive used make the water too hard and cause bad molt. tested some left over sand with vineger. wow. sizzle like coca cola. damn. if im not too lazy to drive and reused my decommed monster fish tank sand.. end up driving out and buying shirui sand.


end up have to suck out all the sand again... back breaking work!!

good stuff should hav use this sand in the begining!! @-@
tested with vinegar totally no reaction. and i found it to be heavier too :)so it wont get blow everywhere by my out flow.

haha... not masterpiece la.. lots of other silent bros here have much better scape.
anywayz. replace the sand d.. surprised at how white it turn out to be.. looks kindda brownish i the bag. mmm..
cant help but flatten it with my algae scraper here and there.. haha.. OCD already..

one thing is im not stocking this tank too heavily,and it actually have some small black specks in it, not pure white. so as long as i do so poo sucking every week during water change should be fine.

lol... more expensive than building sand-yes
but overly expensive-no, affordable la.
good or not arr.. i like its colour and it inert good news for shrimps. hehe

very basic test with white cooking vinegar can drip it on stones or, for sand just put vinegar in see thru container and put sand in.
just to test if it will raise the water hardness. if it sizzle(can see white bubble forming rapidly) most likely its not safe for ur shrimps.

mmm... logically it should be like this- our planted tank is acidic-mildly, if the stone or sand react to this mildly acid water it will slowly dissolve into the water increasing its hardness. the cooking vinegar hav a much lower ph- more acidic, thus if the sand or stone react to cooking vinegar the reaction will be much more violent hence you can observe the bubbles. where as if its in ur tank, it react at a slower pace hence you might not notice it until-death shrimp.

you have made the right choice

PICs!!!!! after rescape!

looks good
mind sharing price and where did u buy your tank?

This post has been edited by jiejian: Apr 6 2013, 01:53 PM

Nice! next target-canister filter and lily pipes?
Btw are you a fluval fan? haha.. would love to see if any of our kaki here buys a fluval G3 or G6 canister filter

wow! very nice! likes how red your plants are
all the bells and whistle as far as equipment goes you also have d..
hmmm.. mayb its just me but the blyxa seems abit to in a straight line. mayb stones in front of the blyxa instead of behind it?
i think glosso can take quite a high temp... mayb kiminha bro can tell you what element ur glosso is lacking. mind sharing ur fert regime?

wont la.. plus he is using lily pipe outlet. ive use 2213 in my 1ft with no issue. currently still using that 2213 on my 40cm.

drip some white vinegar on the stone and see if it sizzle